External positions

Research interests

I am a historian of Latin America. You can find me on twitter at @mateobrown.

My book From Frontiers to Football: An Alternative History of Latin America since 1800 (2014) is a general history of Latin America's engagement with the world, which gives equal importance to sport alongside diplomacy, popular culture alongside commerce.

I am currently working on a research project on the history of sport in South America in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

I am proud to be working with Chaka Studio and Dr Karen Tucker on the Quipu Project (http://www.quipu-project.com/) a transmedia documentary about the unconsented sterilizations of hundreds of thousands of Peruvians in the 1990s. The project has been supported by various sources including the Arts and Humanities Research Council.

My collective biography of the men who fought at the Battle of El Santuario, 17 October 1829, was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2012 as The Struggle for Power in Post-Independence Colombia and Venezuela (2012). The table of contents and introduction are available online at http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?pid=565371.

A research database of over 3,000 foreign adventurers who took part in the Wars of Independence in Colombia, Venezuela and Ecuador, (the subject of my book Adventuring through Spanish Colonies) is currently being refurbished and will be republished soon.